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?'s for those who have their LO's STTN
Help!
How did you do it? Can you share your routines that helped you...I think I'm almost there but DD2 is gonna take awhile...he still gets up. How did you eliminate the night feeds and how many oz's did you give at the last feed...my boys just started taking 5oz and there has been a lot of spit up...do they just need to get used to having more?
Right now they go down between 7:00/7:30pm and they will go until 1:00am/1:30 and DD1 will sometimes sleep straight through 7:00am after I put him down again but DD2 isn't there yet. It's getting so much easier when I can put them down in the evening and I can't wait until they STTN!lol
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Re: ?'s for those who have their LO's STTN
We never tried to eliminate the nighttime feedings an just let the girls do it on their own. They started sleeping 7-7 around 3 months, but then two weeks later they started getting up 1-2x a night. That last for about 3 weeks and now they are back to STTN. We just figured they were going through a growth spurt.
Our routine goes like this: 6:30pm - naked baby time (they lay on the floor of the living room in just diapers and we just sing and interact.. for whatever reason they love just being in diapers). Then we change and put them in their jammies. Take all 3 girls upstairs, turn the lights off and put on the tv. We watch whatever older DD feels like. After they are done eating we swaddle them and put them in their cribs, turn on twilight turtle, and put on the white noise. We also have seahorses in their cribs and turn those on and they just go to sleep. We started this routine when they were 1.5 months old and have been doing it since.
We want to stop swaddling sometime soon but tried it once and they didn't sleep well so we are going to wait until they are STTN for a couple more weeks.
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Consider yourself lucky! I think your LO's are doing just fine. They're sleeping a heII of a lot more than mine did at that age.
We put our 5 month olds down at 7pm and they still get up twice a night to drain 6-8oz bottles. Sometimes they only wake once to eat but that is once a week maybe, if we get lucky. I'm not comfortable weaning any nighttime feedings yet. They're clearly hungry and need to eat during the night still. We've tried all kinds of things to get them both to sleep longer stretches, but nothing works. I'm of the mindset that they will sleep longer when they are ready and they aren't ready just yet. We'll just continue to offer lots of calories during they day and keep doing our bedtime routine.
I was just where you are about 10 days ago, but our girls have now slept through the night for several nights now (sort of!). We started about 10 days ago with reducing the 1am feeding. We went from 3, 2.5, 2, 1.5, 1 (of pumped BM), and then none. On the night we went to none, one of our girls slept through from 8pm-5am and has every night since then. The other one was fussy for three nights, but less so each night. When she got fussy we would go in, reswaddle, give he a paci, and then leave. She would usually fuss for less than 30 minutes total, and then fall back asleep until around 5am. Last night they were both asleep from 8:30-5:30 with no fussing. It was fabulous!
My girls usually eat like crazy around their 5pm feeding (sometimes up to 7 oz of BM), and then take a smaller feed right at 8pm of 2-4 oz.
Between 7:30 and 8 we usually give them a small bottle, change them, swaddle them, put the sleep sheep on and then read them stories after they are put into their cribs. We always walk out before they are asleep! When we feed them at 5am they go right back down and sleep until 7:30-8ish. Our big goal is to get them to sleep from 7:30-7:30, but we're pretty happy with where we are now!
Good luck!
We were in the habit of waking them at 2:30 to eat, rather than letting them wake us, because it's no fun to deal with screamy babies at 2:30 in the morning. Around 10 or 11 weeks, though, I noticed that they were taking forever to eat, and not wanting to finish that bottle. So we just decided to stop waking them and see how long they would go. The first night they slept until like 4:30. The next night it was 5:30. And now, at 17 weeks old, we pretty reliably get to the 6am feeding with no problem. Sure, they wake up for pacis, or, in DD's case, just to chat and play but not for bottles.
We do the bedtime bottle around 7:30 and put them to bed after that, and do an 11pm dreamfeed. That works best for us, because we're not going to go to bed too much earlier than that, anyway, and we'd rather have the long stretch of sleep when we're sleeping, too.